[jdom-interest] Reverse order of children

Les Hill leh at galaxynine.com
Wed Apr 17 14:14:46 PDT 2002


<matthias.lendholt at bln1.siemens.de> writes:
> what is the best way to get a list of all children (of an element) in the
> reverse order ? Neither Element nor List have a function for that.

Try something like (from memory):

    List content = element.getContent();
    List clonedList = new ArrayList(content);
    Collections.reverse(clonedList);

    for (Iterator i = clonedList.iterator(); i.hasNext();)
    {
        // you are now iterating over a reverse list
    }

Les Hill
leh at galaxynine.com





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